{"id":26565,"date":"2026-07-23T15:26:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26565"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:26:51","slug":"bohemian-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/bohemian-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bohemian Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" title=\"July:August 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e5e5e5&amp;backgroundColorFullscreen=&amp;d=july_august_2026&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=40&amp;themeMainColor=%231a1a1a&amp;themeSecondaryColor=%23ffffff&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">To this day, this sinking is one of the darkest moments in Maine history.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">By Matthew Barker<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On February 22, 1864, in the third year of the Civil War, the RMS <i>Bohemian<\/i> went down off the coast of Cape Elizabeth. Thirty-six immigrant passengers and six crewmen were lost. It is the second-worst disaster in Maine maritime history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The British Royal Mail Steamer <i>Bohemian<\/i>, an iron-hulled screw steamer built in Scotland five years earlier for the Allan Line of the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company, left Liverpool on February 4, stopping in Londonderry to board more passengers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bohemian-tragedy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bohemian-tragedy.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bohemian-tragedy-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bohemian-tragedy-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil War Shipwreck <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1510],"class_list":["post-26565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-july-august-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26568,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26565\/revisions\/26568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}